The Guggenheim is grateful to foundations and government agencies that share the museum’s vision and help strengthen its core programming through generous financial support. Whether $10,000 toward a curriculum-based artist residency in the public schools, $50,000 in support of an exhibition, $100,000 for the study and restoration of paintings in the collection, or a $1,000,000 endowment grant to ensure the museum’s future, all levels of support are needed and very much appreciated. In fact, we rely upon this support to serve more than 4,000 people daily, nearly 1.3 million annually, who take to the gracefully spiraling ramps of the Guggenheim to experience brilliantly curated special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and works from the permanent collection; explore the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building—in and of itself a work of art; and participate in educational and public programming that includes lectures, film screenings, performances, workshops for children and adults, gallery tours for the partially sighted, blind, and deaf, and so much more.

Installation view of Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want To Believe, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 22—May 28, 2008. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York